Re: SL6 build procedure?

[Keith Seitz <keiths at redhat dot com>]

On 02/02/2012 08:06 AM, Richard Tierney wrote:
> Has anyone got a working build procedure for SL/RH6 x86_64?

I use Fedora 15 x86_64 daily.

> I've downloaded 6.8-1,

That's a big problem. That release is many years old. Try checking out 
the sources from CVS. If you want something that will be *very* close to 
the next release, use:

$ cvs co -r gdb_7_4-branch gdb
...
$ cd src
$ cvs update -d -r HEAD tcl tk itcl libgui gdb/gdbtk

Alternatively, just checkout CVS HEAD (cvs co insight). Login procedures 
for anonymous CVS are on the web site.

You should then be able to build as normal. I just tried this on my 
x86_64 Fedora box, and the only problem I found was that running insight 
from the build directory doesn't work. You have to install it.

That's probably not a problem for anyone but me.

Keith

PS. You can use system-supplied tcl, tk, itcl, and iwidgets instead of 
grabbing them from the repository. [So you only need to add libgui and 
gdb/gdbtk to a clean checkout of gdb.] To do that, you will need a patch 
from me. Contact me off-list for it.